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Chimpanzee hack (video)
- callmeed 16y agoImpressive. I propose we change the title of HN to "Chimpanzee News" for a day.
- RK 16y agoI have a friend who works with chimps at the zoo and she says that spitting water (mostly at people) is one of their favorite activities.
- harscoat 16y agoone of the other great scientist from the Max Planck Institute is Michael Tomasello http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/ http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/ (he works with Chimpanzee too and make the same experiments with human children to explore what is specific about humans). Many interesting of his lectures/interview vid online.
- motters 16y agoIt's an example of intuition. Also some birds display intuition-like behavior, so this cognitive feature probably goes back a long way. Being able to intuit a solution means imagining a solution (a sort of internal simulation) then formulating a plan and then carrying out the plan. Intuitive behavior doesn't require large numbers of trial and error efforts, as you would see with less intelligent creatures.